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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for people all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering more than ever because learning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Greenland to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Students want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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