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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in elearning make it possible for humans all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Norway to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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