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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in electronic education technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can educators ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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