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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in online education technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Coral Sea Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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