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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in distance learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also explores the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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