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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in online learning enable students in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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