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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in e-learning are empowering students all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are considering more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also analyzes 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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