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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a developing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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