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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in technology-enhanced learning are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning institutions have to consider now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coral Sea Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Instructors want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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