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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Educators want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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