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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders make sure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these promising new open educational ventures. Lecturers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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