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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online learning technology have enabled students all around the world to take online classes. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations are having to consider today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to better understand these promising new open education experiments. People want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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