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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online education have provided the means for people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are having to consider today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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