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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning technology are making it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to understand these new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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