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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online learning are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Bouvet Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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