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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in e-learning are enabling people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these new open education ventures. Universities want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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