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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online education technology enable humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Emory University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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