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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in e-learning are empowering people all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Teachers want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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