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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in e-learning enable people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like France to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to better perceive these promising new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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