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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in learning technology make it possible for humans all around the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Broward College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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