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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these fascinating new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also explores the major 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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