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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people all around the world to take part in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desideratum for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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