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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education have enabled students in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to understand these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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