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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these promising new open educational ventures. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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