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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in technology-enhanced learning make it possible for students all over the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Iran to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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