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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in e-learning technology have made it possible for people all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to understand these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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