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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take courses online. These online MOOCs are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these interesting new open education endeavours. Corporations want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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