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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning make it possible for people all over the world to take online classes. MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations have to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Bellevue University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this growing desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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