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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online education are enabling people all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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