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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in elearning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous subjects that elearning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to understand these exciting new open educational initiatives. Universities want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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