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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online learning have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these open education endeavours. Everyone wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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