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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in e-learning have provided the means for students all over the world to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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