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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in distance learning have empowered learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Albania to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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