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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning technology have made it possible for students in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a desire to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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