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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in elearning are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take online classes. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. Students want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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