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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in distance learning enable people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Saint Lucia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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