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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education enable humans all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this expanding desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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