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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in elearning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Svalbard to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants need to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education ventures. People want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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