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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education technology are providing the means for students all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can we certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these open education endeavours. Everyone wants to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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