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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning have made it possible for humans all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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