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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in electronic educational technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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