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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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