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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this need for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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