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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in online education technology are providing the means for students all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOCs? How can organizations handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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