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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning have enabled students all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Turkmenistan to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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