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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in distance learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Babson College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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