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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online learning technology enable humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Teachers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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