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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in e-learning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants certify that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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