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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in distance learning technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Bhutan to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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