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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online education have empowered students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Martinique to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to know how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this growing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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