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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in electronic education technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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