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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest evolvements in distance learning technology have made it possible for students in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also explores the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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