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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online learning technology are enabling learners in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Professors want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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