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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education technology are providing the means for students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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