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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New gains in electronic educational technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several topics that elearning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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