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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Thailand to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also researches the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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