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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education technology are providing the means for students all around the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Central Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these new open education experiments. People want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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