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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in electronic educational technology are enabling people all over the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like LinkedIn to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Educators want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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