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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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