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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in elearning have provided the means for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Ascension to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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