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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in e-learning technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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