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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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