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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in electronic education technology enable people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also describes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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