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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of Florida to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This amazing new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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