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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern developments in e-learning are enabling learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Virginia to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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