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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Kentucky to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to better perceive these exciting new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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