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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology make it possible for learners all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Vanuatu to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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