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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in learning technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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