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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New changes in online learning technology enable students in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC classes are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also considers 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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