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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New changes in elearning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are considering in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Educators want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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