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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in distance learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so fast. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to understand these important new open education undertakings. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also examines the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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