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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take courses online. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are considering more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education ventures. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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