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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in e-learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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