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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many subjects that learning technology organizations are having to consider now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Alfred State College of Technology - SUNY to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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