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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions are having to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to better grasp these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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