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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Peter I Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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