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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in digital education technology are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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