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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online education have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Open2Study to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education endeavours. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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