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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online learning are making it possible for learners all over the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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