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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning are empowering people all over the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants need to understand the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this crescive demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also studies the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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