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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in elearning are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like CaltechX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive need for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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