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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning enable humans all around the world to take part in online classes. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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