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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education have enabled humans all around the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Guam to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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