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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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