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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Somaliland to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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