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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online education technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Brazil to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also studies the key 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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