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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we certify that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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