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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in learning technology have made it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Scientists want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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