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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online education enable learners all over the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Gibraltar to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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