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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in elearning are providing the means for learners in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like LinkedIn to conduct these MOOCs? How can institutions manage poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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