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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning are enabling students in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Netherlands Antilles to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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