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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in online education technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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