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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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