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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in technology-enhanced learning enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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