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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in online education have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Renton Technical College to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders need to better understand these significant new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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