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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in elearning have empowered people all over the world to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education endeavours. Instructors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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