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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in e-learning are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can we make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage low motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education endeavours. Corporations want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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