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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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