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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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