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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology enable students in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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