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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online education have empowered students all over the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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