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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online education make it possible for students all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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