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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in technology-enhanced learning enable humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these exciting new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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