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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology institutions have to deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better perceive these important new open education initiatives. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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