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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in online education technology are empowering students all over the world to take classes online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like OpenupEd to conduct these massively open online courses? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these fascinating new open education experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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