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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Georgia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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