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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education are empowering humans in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Tajikistan to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this developing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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