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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning technology have empowered humans all around the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Tajikistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this growing demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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