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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are numerous issues that online education organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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