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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in online education have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Gibraltar to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this crescive need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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