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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for learners all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also analyzes 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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