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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online education are empowering people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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