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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning are enabling learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Greece to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational ventures. Teachers want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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