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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in elearning are providing the means for students all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers make sure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Aland to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massive Open Online Courses (moocs) Definition