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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of South Florida to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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