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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to understand these interesting new open education ventures. Public servants want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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