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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in distance learning have enabled people in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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