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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in e-learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Svalbard to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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