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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can teachers make sure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like YouTube to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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