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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in digital education technology enable students in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like Great Basin College to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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