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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in online education technology are enabling learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Netherlands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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