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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning technology make it possible for humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. People want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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