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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to take classes online. These massive open courses are commonly free for students 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 a lot of issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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