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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC classes are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Aruba to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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