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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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