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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in digital education technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Davidson College to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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