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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in online education are empowering students all around the world to take part in online classes. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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