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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in electronic educational technology have enabled students in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this increasing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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