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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in elearning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants want to understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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