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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning have made it possible for humans all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is all right? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these interesting new open education endeavours. People want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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