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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in elearning are enabling students in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these new open educational experiments. Scientists want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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