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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in e-learning have empowered students in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and many other participants would like to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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