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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in e-learning are empowering humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Instructors want to know how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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