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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in online education technology enable people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these exciting new open educational ventures. Corporations want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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