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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in online education are enabling people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can educators assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Scientists want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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