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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New advances in distance learning enable people in every nation on earth to take courses online. MOOCs are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are considering today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these compelling new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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