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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in digital education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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