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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in technology-enhanced learning enable humans in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also explores the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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