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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in online education have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Tanzania to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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