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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in online education technology are making it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many subjects that learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Utah State University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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