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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in online learning are providing the means for students all over the world to take courses online. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to understand these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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