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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in online education technology are empowering people in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Guam to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these compelling new open educational undertakings. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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