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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in online education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this growing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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