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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in distance learning technology are making it possible for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and numerous other participants need to better perceive these open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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