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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to take part 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. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Queen Maud Land to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Researchers want to know how massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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