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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in digital education technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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