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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in elearning technology enable students all over the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational undertakings. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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