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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in online education technology are enabling humans all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these interesting new open education endeavours. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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