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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in learning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take classes online. MOOCs are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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