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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning have empowered learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Scientists want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the most important 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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