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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ball State University to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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