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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in distance learning have enabled people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Cuba to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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