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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. Everyone wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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