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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in electronic educational technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are free but do not consistently 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 topics that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Georgia to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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