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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning technology enable students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Kentucky to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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