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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in distance learning technology are empowering learners all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Scientists want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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