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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling humans all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can we make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also addresses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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