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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in learning technology are empowering students all around the world to take online classes. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so fast. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Seychelles to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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