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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning are empowering people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Vatican City to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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