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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Marshall Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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