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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education technology are empowering people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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