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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for students 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 lot of issues that elearning technology organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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