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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology are empowering students all over the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education undertakings. Academics want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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