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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online learning have enabled people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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