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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in electronic educational technology are providing the means for learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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