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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning have enabled learners all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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