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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in online education have empowered learners all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Singapore to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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