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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in e-learning technology enable people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders want to better understand these new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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