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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in digital education technology are enabling humans all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like Marshall Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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