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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in electronic education technology enable students all over the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Greenland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders want to better understand these interesting new open educational ventures. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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