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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Johnston Atoll to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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