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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews subjects regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like El Salvador to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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