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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online learning are enabling humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources