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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in elearning are enabling students all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this need for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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