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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations are considering in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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