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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like UWashingtonX to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Corporations want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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