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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Uganda to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants handle issues like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants need to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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