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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Queen Maud Land to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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