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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Public servants want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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