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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning technology have empowered students all around the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions have to consider today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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