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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in online learning have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage low motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this increasing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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