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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Brazil to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open education ventures. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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