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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in e-learning make it possible for learners in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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