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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in elearning technology have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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