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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that online learning institutions must deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Dominica to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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