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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Guatemala to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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