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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in online education have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Facebook to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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