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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Poland to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also researches the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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