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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to take online classes. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these open educational endeavours. Academics want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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