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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Rwaq to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also explores the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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