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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in e-learning technology are enabling students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this increasing desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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