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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions have to consider more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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