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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in digital education technology have enabled students all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massively open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Excelsior College to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these intriguing new open education ventures. Researchers want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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