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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also researches the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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