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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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