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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic education technology have enabled students in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Vietnam to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these important new open educational ventures. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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