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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest changes in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for students all over the world to take online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Marshall Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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