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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in elearning technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Senegal to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education