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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning are empowering people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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