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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in elearning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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