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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in elearning enable students all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Houston System to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Lecturers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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