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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several subjects that online learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Jarvis Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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