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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in e-learning are making it possible for students all around the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Queen Maud Land to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. People want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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