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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in technology-enhanced learning enable humans all over the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can educators ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like San Diego State University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also explores the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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