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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in digital education technology make it possible for students in every nation on earth to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Facebook to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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