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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in online learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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