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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education are empowering students in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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