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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in distance learning technology are providing the means for students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that online learning institutions are considering today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants certify that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Haiti to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these interesting new open education initiatives. Universities want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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