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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in distance learning technology are making it possible for learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to better grasp these important new open educational ventures. Academics want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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