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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in e-learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Georgetown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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