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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in e-learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like The University of Chicago to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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