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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning technology have enabled humans all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Papua New Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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