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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in e-learning enable people all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better comprehend these open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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