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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in elearning technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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