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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in digital education technology are enabling humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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