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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in e-learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Costa Rica to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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