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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in online education enable learners in every nation on earth to take 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 generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this growing demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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