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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in technology-enhanced learning make it possible for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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