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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take online classes. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better grasp these open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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