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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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