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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online learning are providing the means for learners all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC classes are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this growing need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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