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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education have empowered people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants make sure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Lithuania to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education endeavours. People want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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