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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in online education enable people all around the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This inspiring new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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