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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in distance learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like Peninsula College to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these new open educational initiatives. Academics want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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