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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New changes in e-learning make it possible for learners in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that blended learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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