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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in learning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Wake Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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