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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in e-learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Poland to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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