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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in technology-enhanced learning have empowered learners all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology organizations have to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Open2Study to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this growing desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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