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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling students all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Ross Dependency to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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