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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in distance learning have enabled people all around the world to take part in classes online. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Kentucky to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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