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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in distance learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to take courses online. 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. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like OpenupEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these promising new open educational ventures. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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