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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in elearning are enabling learners in all parts of the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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