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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in online education are enabling learners in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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