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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in online education have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Venezuela to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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