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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in digital education technology have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can teachers make sure that the quality control for these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing need for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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