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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in digital education technology enable students in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is all right? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like U.S. Virgin Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? How can organizations handle issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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