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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in e-learning are making it possible for learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous topics that elearning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Belarus to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this demand for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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