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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in online education are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Sudan to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational undertakings. Academics want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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