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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic education technology are making it possible for humans in every nation on earth to take classes online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to better understand these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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