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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in digital education technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take classes online. These massive online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Christmas Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this growing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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