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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in technology-enhanced learning are enabling students in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to better perceive these important new open education initiatives. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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