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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in distance learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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