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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in online education technology enable people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Portugal to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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