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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning technology have made it possible for learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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