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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in distance learning have enabled students in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is satisfactory? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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