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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. New gains in electronic education technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Universities want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also addresses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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