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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in online learning have made it possible for students all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also researches the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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