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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online education have empowered people all over the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of New Mexico to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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