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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in distance learning technology are making it possible for learners in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants need to understand these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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