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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in e-learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can educators make sure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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