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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in learning technology have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of North Carolina to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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