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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that distance learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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