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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in electronic educational technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources