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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest developments in electronic educational technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Houston System to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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