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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education technology make it possible for students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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