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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology enable people all around the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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