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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education technology enable learners in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Tokelau to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to better grasp these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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