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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in e-learning enable learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants want to understand these promising new open education ventures. People want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also investigates 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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