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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in learning technology enable learners in nations all around the world to take online classes. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this increasing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also researches the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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