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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in online education enable learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also explores the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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