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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Tuvalu to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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