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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in distance learning technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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