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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions are considering now that distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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