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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in e-learning are making it possible for people all around the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these intriguing new open education endeavours. Instructors want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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