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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education enable students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this developing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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