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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in digital education technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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