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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online education technology are enabling students all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education experiments. Public servants want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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