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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in elearning technology enable people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Northern Cyprus to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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