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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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