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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education have enabled learners in nations all aver the world to take part in online courses. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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