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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in e-learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in classes online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like San Diego County Office of Education to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. People want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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