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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology are enabling learners in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by institutions like Peru to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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