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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations are considering in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these compelling new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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