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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in online education have enabled people all around the world to take part in online classes. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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