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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New improvements in e-learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is good? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education ventures. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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