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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in distance learning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these significant new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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