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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education are enabling students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is passable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Great Basin College to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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