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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in elearning technology are enabling learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several topics that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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