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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in online education are enabling learners in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of New Mexico to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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