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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology have empowered humans in nations all aver the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Papua New Guinea to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these important new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also studies the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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