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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in electronic education technology make it possible for humans in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Indonesia to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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