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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning are making it possible for learners in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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