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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic education technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning institutions are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for data 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 describes the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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