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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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