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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in elearning have provided the means for learners all over the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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