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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online education technology have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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