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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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