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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in electronic education technology are enabling students all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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