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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in online education have empowered humans all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free 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. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Kentucky to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Professors want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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