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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to take part in classes online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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