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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education technology enable humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage problems like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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