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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in digital education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take online classes. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are struggling with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like The Ohio State University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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