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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in electronic education technology have enabled learners in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education ventures. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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