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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning enable learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Palau to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these exciting new open educational undertakings. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this developing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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