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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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