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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in online education have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage low motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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