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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in distance learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these intriguing new open educational experiments. Educators want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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