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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in digital education technology have enabled humans in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Students want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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