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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in distance learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this growing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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