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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online learning technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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