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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in online education have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Bermuda to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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