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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in online education have provided the means for humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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