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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology enable people all over the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Florida to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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