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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to consider today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low learner motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better grasp these new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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