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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in elearning technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Guatemala to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This thrilling new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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