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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in elearning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Kazakhstan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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