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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in elearning technology have made it possible for students all around the world to take part in classes online. These MOOC classes are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can teachers make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Vietnam to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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