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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that e-learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Tokelau to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of these exciting new open education undertakings. Academics want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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