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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better understand these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also deals with the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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