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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in distance learning technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive online courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that online education organizations have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these open education undertakings. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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