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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a developing need to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Educators want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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