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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Georgetown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational ventures. Universities want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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