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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in online education are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Belarus to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants need to better understand these interesting new open educational initiatives. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive need for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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