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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology make it possible for humans in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also articulates the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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