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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students 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 issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Slovenia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open education initiatives. Universities want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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