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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in distance learning technology have enabled students in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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