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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in elearning technology have enabled learners in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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