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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in online learning are empowering people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Clipperton Island to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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