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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in elearning technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Philippines to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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