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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in distance learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are struggling with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UWashingtonX to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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