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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in technology-enhanced learning enable people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Public servants want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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