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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in online learning have enabled people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations have to consider now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Meetup to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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