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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in e-learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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