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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in technology-enhanced learning have enabled learners all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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