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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in elearning technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning institutions are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can we make sure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Washington to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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