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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in elearning are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Gibraltar to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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