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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Oman to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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