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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning technology enable people all over the world to participate in classes online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Open2Study to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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