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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education institutions are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Twitter to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this growing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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