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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also describes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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