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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in digital education technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Korea, South to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Scholars want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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