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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in elearning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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