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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online learning technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Switzerland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a developing need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Everybody wants to know how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this expanding desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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