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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in distance learning have made it possible for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. 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. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Equatorial Guinea to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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