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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in distance learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions have to consider now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This thrilling new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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