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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education technology are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations have to consider now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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