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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in electronic education technology enable humans all over the world to participate in online courses. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Portugal to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this increasing need for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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