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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in distance learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can we certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Mayotte to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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