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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advancements in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Macedonia to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other participants need to better grasp these interesting new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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