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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses? How can organizations manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also explores the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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