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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning make it possible for humans all over the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing need for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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