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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in elearning are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Laos to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. People want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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