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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning enable people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these promising new open educational undertakings. Everyone wants to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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