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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Wellesley College to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants need to better understand these promising new open education ventures. Scholars want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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