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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Laos to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also explores the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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