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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that online learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Northwestern University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. Scholars want to perceive how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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