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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in elearning enable learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Cook Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can participants deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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