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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education have made it possible for students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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