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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently 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 e-learning technology organizations have to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Singapore to conduct these MOOC classes? How can teachers handle inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these important new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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