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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning are enabling students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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