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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in distance learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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