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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in online education technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that e-learning organizations are considering in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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