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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in distance learning are enabling humans in every nation on earth to take courses online. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Students want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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