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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in online learning enable humans in all parts of the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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