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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education technology are enabling students all over the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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