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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in online learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education institutions are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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