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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New changes in online education technology have empowered people all over the world to take part in courses online. MOOC classes are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Trainers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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