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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in electronic educational technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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