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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOCs are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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