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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in electronic education technology are enabling people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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