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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Howland Island to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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