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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in online education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Haiti to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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