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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in technology-enhanced learning enable people all around the world to participate in online classes. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? How can stakeholders manage inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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