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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in online education technology have empowered students all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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