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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning institutions are dealing with today because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also examines the major 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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