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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in learning technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Guinea-Bissau to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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