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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several issues that e-learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like The Bahamas to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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