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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in technology-enhanced learning have enabled students in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. MOOCs are customarily free for students 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 lot of topics that learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Solomon Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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