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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in online learning have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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