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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in distance learning are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This sensational new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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