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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in online education are empowering people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational ventures. Academics want to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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