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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in elearning have empowered humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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