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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Benin to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to better understand these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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