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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is developing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Chile to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these open education endeavours. Instructors want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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