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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in elearning technology are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education experiments. Trainers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also talks about the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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