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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for students all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these promising new open education endeavours. Academics want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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