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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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