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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in learning technology have enabled students all around the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Norway to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Students want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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