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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in electronic education technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Florida to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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