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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in elearning technology make it possible for students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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