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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Montenegro to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open education ventures. Universities want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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