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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in online learning technology enable students all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a growing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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