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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people in nations all aver the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Lebanon to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these interesting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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