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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants need to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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