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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in elearning have empowered people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Iceland to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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