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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Cyprus to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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