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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology make it possible for humans all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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