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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. New changes in electronic education technology make it possible for learners all over the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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