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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education technology are providing the means for students all over the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this developing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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