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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in electronic education technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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