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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology have empowered students all over the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOC courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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