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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in elearning technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Davidson College to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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