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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic education technology are empowering students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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