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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can we certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this developing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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