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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online learning technology enable learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Virginia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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