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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in online education have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This definitive new book also researches the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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