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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a desire to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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