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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in e-learning are making it possible for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like American College of Education to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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