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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like U.S. Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This thrilling new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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