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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online learning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants want to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Public servants want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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