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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in electronic educational technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Hungary to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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