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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in technology-enhanced learning have empowered students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United Kingdom to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to understand these promising new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this expanding demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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