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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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