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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in elearning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these significant new open education endeavours. Scientists want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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