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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning technology are empowering humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these new open educational undertakings. People want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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