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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education are making it possible for students all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Heard Island and McDonald Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Scientists want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this crescive need for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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