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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in elearning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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