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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in electronic education technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. Trainers want to perceive how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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