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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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