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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in online learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to deal with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Chile to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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