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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in online education have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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