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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in online education technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually 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 quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Ukraine to conduct these MOOCs? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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