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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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