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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest developments in elearning enable students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Northwestern University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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