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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in electronic educational technology are enabling people all around the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Papua New Guinea to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education initiatives. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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