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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for people all around the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants desire to understand these compelling new open educational experiments. Students want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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