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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these exciting new open educational initiatives. Professors want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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