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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in technology-enhanced learning are empowering learners all around the world to take part in classes online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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