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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in distance learning are enabling humans in nations all around the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions must deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is passable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Tunisia to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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