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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in digital education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these interesting new open educational ventures. Academics want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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