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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in electronic education technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that e-learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders make sure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. People want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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