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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Moldova to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this expanding need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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