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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in electronic educational technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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