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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in distance learning enable people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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