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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in digital education technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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