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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in technology-enhanced learning are enabling students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Utah Valley University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants need to understand these promising new open education endeavours. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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