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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions are having to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Greece to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. People want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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