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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in electronic educational technology are enabling people all over the world to take classes online. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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