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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in distance learning are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take online classes. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to understand these intriguing new open education ventures. Instructors want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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