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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses. New developments in distance learning have empowered students all over the world to take part in online classes. MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a developing desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also talks about the 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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