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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in elearning technology have enabled learners in all parts of the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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