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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in digital education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Gibraltar to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these interesting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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