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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in distance learning technology enable learners in all parts of the world to take online courses. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Kentucky to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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