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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Baker Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Students want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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