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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can organizations certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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