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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to take part in online classes. MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations must deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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