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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in technology-enhanced learning have empowered students all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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