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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning have provided the means for learners all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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