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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in e-learning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are having to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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