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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for humans all around the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Latvia to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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