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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in learning technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Vanuatu to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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