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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in distance learning enable learners in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massive open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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