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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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