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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning are making it possible for people all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also explores the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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