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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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