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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in e-learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take part in online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is all right? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Michigan State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this developing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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