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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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