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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic education technology enable students all over the world to take part in online classes. These MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like India to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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