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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Students want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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