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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in electronic education technology have empowered people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Ukraine to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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