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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is passable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of New Mexico to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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