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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in elearning are making it possible for students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these compelling new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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