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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in online education technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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