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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest changes in electronic education technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Cocos (Keeling) Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also explores the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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