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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education endeavours. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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