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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning are enabling learners all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational initiatives. Professors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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