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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic education technology are enabling humans all over the world to take courses online. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Lithuania to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also reviews 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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