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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in digital education technology are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Rochester to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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