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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in distance learning are enabling learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education endeavours. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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