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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in online education enable people in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Tokelau to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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