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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online education have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC classes are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is good? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Reddit to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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