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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in electronic education technology have empowered learners in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Niue to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding need for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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