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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in e-learning technology have empowered students all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these compelling new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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