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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in elearning have enabled people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants want to better understand these new open educational ventures. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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