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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education are empowering students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can institutions make sure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Universities want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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