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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning institutions must deal with more than ever because learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to better grasp these important new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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