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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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