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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in digital education technology are empowering students in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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