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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in digital education technology are empowering students all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Kazakhstan to conduct these MOOC courses? How can teachers handle problems like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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