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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic education technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Open2Study to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Teachers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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