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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Jarvis Island to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other participants need to better comprehend these open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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