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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in e-learning enable people all over the world to take part in online classes. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Vanderbilt University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better understand these intriguing new open educational ventures. Researchers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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