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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in elearning have made it possible for students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Latvia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these compelling new open educational undertakings. Students want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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