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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people all over the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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