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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Arizona State University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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