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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest changes in elearning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are considering today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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