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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in distance learning are empowering people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are struggling with now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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