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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in e-learning enable humans all around the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are considering today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this growing desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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