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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in digital education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Ireland to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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