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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in distance learning are making it possible for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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