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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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