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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning enable people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology institutions are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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