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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in distance learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Vanderbilt University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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