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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in online education are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Case Western Reserve University to conduct these massive open online courses? How can participants manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. Scientists want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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