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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in learning technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. People want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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