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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in learning technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that learning technology institutions are considering now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Mexico to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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