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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning enable students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This definitive new book also addresses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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