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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in e-learning technology make it possible for people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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