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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in online education technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly 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 many subjects that distance learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Educators want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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