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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning technology enable students in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like China, People's Republic of to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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