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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in distance learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these promising new open education ventures. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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