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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these significant new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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