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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Jarvis Island to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open educational endeavours. Scientists want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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