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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in online education are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality control for these MOOCs is all right? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to better grasp these important new open education endeavours. Teachers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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