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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in e-learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Hungary to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Educators want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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