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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These MOOCs are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Ghana to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open educational experiments. Trainers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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