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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education are empowering people in nations all around the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions are considering in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ashmore and Cartier Islands to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education endeavours. Instructors want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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