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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in electronic education technology make it possible for people all around the world to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Niue to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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