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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in distance learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take courses online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOCs are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Montserrat to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Corporations want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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