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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in e-learning enable people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Babson College to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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