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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in online education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can we assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Public servants want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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