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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Kauffman Fellows Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This thrilling new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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