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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online learning technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Babson College to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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