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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online learning technology are empowering people all over the world to take part in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Italy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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