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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in online education are enabling learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Mongolia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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