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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in e-learning make it possible for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Scientists want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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