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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people all around the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations must deal with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to better understand these open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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