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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in digital education technology have empowered students all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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