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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous subjects that e-learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Concordia University Wisconsin to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these exciting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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