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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions are having to deal with today because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. People want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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