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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education technology have made it possible for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Clipperton Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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