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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Ghana to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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